California · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,882,487 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,066,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation does
Mission
The Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation is dedicated to strengthening the community support and investment in alliance college ready public schools and the scholars served by the schools. The foundation raises awareness and resources, advocates and builds partnerships for the alliance community. We share best practices with the larger education community and policy-makers to boost alliance schools and to shine a bright light on what is possible for all public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the foundation has awarded approximately $6,046,185. These awards went to alliance college-ready public schools to support strategic initiatives of the schools and to provide college scholarships to alliance students. The foundation also operated community awareness and advocacy programs, and partnered with alliance schools on the mentorship and internship programs to support alliance scholars and schools.
$6,640,354 spentof which $6,046,185 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,640,354.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $3.9M (+102%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Catherine E Suitor
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $95k → $2.6M.
18 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 87% · 2020 55% · 2021 23% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.4M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alliance College-Ready Public Schools · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,882,487 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,066,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $12,882,487 in grants to ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,066,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 59 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing